Self Control

 

Lack of discipline leads to frustration and self-loathing.

– Marie Chapian

 

You must learn to be still in the midst of activity, and to be vibrantly alive in repose.

– Indira Gandhi

 

When the fight begins within himself, a man’s worth something.

– Robert Browning

 

To put a tempting face aside when duty demands every faculty is a lesson which takes most men longest to learn.

– Gertrude Atherton

 

It isn’t until you come to a spiritual understanding of who you are – not necessarily a religious feeling, but deep down, the spirit within – that you can begin to take control.

– Oprah Winfrey

 

You must have discipline to have fun.

– Julia Child

 

Everybody’s business is nobody’s business, and nobody’s business is my business.

Clara Barton

 

A little kingdom I possess, where thoughts and feelings dwell; and very hard the task I find of governing it well.

– Louisa May Alcott

Men never cling to their dreams with such tenacity as at the moment when they are losing faith in them and know it, but do not dare confess it to themselves.

– Anonymous

 

Self-command is the main elegance.

– Ralph Waldo Emerson

 

One sees intelligence far more than one hears it. People do not always say transcendental things, but if they are capable of saying them, it is always visible.

– Marie Leneru

 

The difference between perseverance and obstinacy is that one often comes from a strong will, and the other from a strong won’t.

– Henry Ward Beecher

 

The man who masters his own soul will forever be called conqueror of conquerors.

– Plautus

 

Self-control – can’t say I’ve ever given it much of a try. Looks like too much work. People who are practicing it always seem to be unhappy.

– Paul Baxter

The future is not in the hands of fate, but in ours.

– Jules Jusserano

 

Temptations come, as a general rule, when they are sought.

– Margaret Oliphant